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Author : Jim Callan
Release : 2005-08
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 361/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America in the 1900s and 1910s by : Jim Callan
Download or read book America in the 1900s and 1910s written by Jim Callan. This book was released on 2005-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores cultural, economic, and political events of the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Noel J Kent
Release : 2015-03-04
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 383/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis America in 1900 by : Noel J Kent
Download or read book America in 1900 written by Noel J Kent. This book was released on 2015-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the key issues concerning the United States as we enter the 21st century were already taking shape as we entered the 20th century. Business mergers, U.S. military intervention (in the Philippines), trade disputes with China and Europe, racial violence, high levels of crime, rising income gaps between rich and poor, volatile stock market prices, homelessness in the cities, the dangers of immigration, and the domination of money in elections -- all these major national issues in 1900 are familiar in some form to Americans today. The nation grappled for the first time with a series of complex new challenges: distribution of wealth and economic opportunity; the form race and ethnic relations should take in a country of increasing diversity; the relationship between big business and government; how the United States, as a new world power, should act overseas; and a host of others. Written in a fluid and highly readable style, Kent's ten chapters comprise a colorful narrative history of the major events of this pivotal year that continues to resonate a century later.
Author : Matthew Pratt Guterl
Release : 2002-10-30
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 053/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 by : Matthew Pratt Guterl
Download or read book The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 written by Matthew Pratt Guterl. This book was released on 2002-10-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the social change brought on by the Great Migration of African Americans into the urban northeast after the Great War came the surge of a biracial sensibility that made America different from other Western nations. How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age: Daniel Cohalan, the Irish-American nationalist, Tammany Hall man, and ruthless politician; Madison Grant, the patrician eugenicist and noisy white supremacist; W. E. B. Du Bois, the African-American social scientist and advocate of social justice; and Jean Toomer, the American pluralist and novelist of the interior life. Race, politics, and classification were their intense and troubling preoccupations in a world they did not create, would not accept, and tried to change.
Author : Eric Avila
Release : 2018-07-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 596/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction by : Eric Avila
Download or read book American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction written by Eric Avila. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have imagined themselves, their nation, and their relationship to the world and its peoples. This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments. Across the lines of race, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as language, region, and religion, diverse Americans have forged a national culture with a global reach, inventing stories that have shaped a national identity and an American way of life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Release : 2012-08-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 657/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American History: A Very Short Introduction by : Paul S. Boyer
Download or read book American History: A Very Short Introduction written by Paul S. Boyer. This book was released on 2012-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
